Publications

Laboratory Animal Management: Nonhuman Primates

Lighting should be uniformly diffused throughout the area and provide adequate illumination for good house-keeping practices, adequate inspection of animals, and safe working conditions for personnel [p. 13].[This text has also been published in ILAR News 13(2-3), 1980]

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Institute for Laboratory Animal Resources 1980. Laboratory Animal Management: Nonhuman Primates. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.

The role of peers in modifying behavioral distress and pituitary-adrenal response to a novel environment in year-old rhesus monkeys

Infant rhesus macaques were captured from their social group and placed in an unfamiliar environment for 24 hours either (a) alone or (b) with another infant from the same group. When tested alone, the animals exhibited significantly more signs of...

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Gunnar, M. R., Gonzalez, C. A., Levine, S. 1980. The role of peers in modifying behavioral distress and pituitary-adrenal response to a novel environment in year-old rhesus monkeys. Physiology and Behavior 25, 795-798.

Persistent adrenocortical activation in female rhesus monkeys after new breeding group formation

Persistent elevated adrenocortical responsiveness to ACTH has been demonstrated in female rhesus monkeys as long as 13 weeks after relocation into new single male breeding groups.

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Goo, G. P., Sassenrath, E. N. 1980. Persistent adrenocortical activation in female rhesus monkeys after new breeding group formation. Journal of Medical Primatology 9, 325-334.

Interactions between males and unweaned barbary macaques: testing the agonistic buffering hypothesis

Observations of wild Barbary macaques in the Moroccan Middle Atlas revealed more male interaction with unweaned monkeys than has been described for other Cercopithecoidea. 2. Adult, subadult and juveniles males were all involved. On the birth of a new season's...

Year Published: 1980Animal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Deag, J. M. 1980. Interactions between males and unweaned barbary macaques: testing the agonistic buffering hypothesis. Behaviour 75, 54-81.

Animal Suffering – The Science of Animal Welfare

I wrote this book because I believe that the welfare of animals is a very important subject but one about which there is a lot of confusion and muddled thinking. I wanted to great deal write a book which straightened...

Year Published: 1980Topics: Welfare AssessmentAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Dawkins, M. S. 1980. Animal Suffering - The Science of Animal Welfare. Chapman and Hall, London, UK.

Objective observation on the behaviour of fattening pigs

Supplying straw reduced tail biting in group-housed pigs.

Year Published: 1980Topics: Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Pig

Citation: Van Putten, G. 1980. Objective observation on the behaviour of fattening pigs. Animal Regulation Studies 3, 104-118.

Untersuchung Zum Sozialverhalten Des Rindes – Eine Zweijahrige Beobachtung an Einer Halb-Wilden Rinderhede (Bos Indicus) [Investigations on the Social Behaviour of Cattle – A Two-Year-Observation of a Half-Wild Cattle Herd (Bos Indicus); German Text With English Summary]

The social behavior of a semi-wild cattle herd was described and analysed covering a 2-year observation period. In cattle husbandry, livestock should be only kept in such systems that meet the species-specific social needs of the animals, e.g., enough room,...

Year Published: 1980Topics: Natural BehaviorAnimal Type: Cattle

Citation: Reinhardt, V. 1980. Untersuchung Zum Sozialverhalten Des Rindes - Eine Zweijahrige Beobachtung an Einer Halb-Wilden Rinderhede (Bos Indicus) [Investigations on the Social Behaviour of Cattle - A Two-Year-Observation of a Half-Wild Cattle Herd (Bos Indicus); German Text With English Summary]. Birkhauser Verlag, Boston, MA.

Behavioral responses of short-term isolation in sheep and goats

Behavioral stress responses to social deprivation are described.

Year Published: 1980Topics: Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Goat, Sheep

Citation: Price, E. O., Thos, J. 1980. Behavioral responses of short-term isolation in sheep and goats. Applied Animal Ethology (Applied Animal Behaviour Science) 6(4), 331-339.

Noise and laboratory animals

The preponderance of experimental evidence gathered over the past three decades indicates that exposure to intense noise can lead to a wide variety of functional and structural changes in laboratory animals. Although little information regarding noise effects at more moderate...

Year Published: 1980Topics: Husbandry & ManagementAnimal Type: All/General

Citation: Peterson, E. A. 1980. Noise and laboratory animals. Laboratory Animal Science 30, 422-439.

Social environment as a factor of diet induced atherosclerosis

Rabbits were fed a high-cholesterol diet to induce atherosclerosis. Animals who received special attention from a person (frequent handling, petting, playing, gentle vocalization) showed a markedly lower incidence of atheroslerosis than subjects who received no extra attention.

Year Published: 1980Topics: Human-Animal InteractionAnimal Type: Rabbit

Citation: Nerem, R. M., Levensque, M. J., Cornhill, J. F. 1980. Social environment as a factor of diet induced atherosclerosis. Science 208, 1475-1476.